MKB Law – First law firm in Northern Ireland to achieve Briefed 2022 GDPR Certification

16 February 2022 
2 minutes

MKB Law are the first law firm in Northern Ireland to achieve the Briefed ‘GDPR Certification for Law Firms 2022’.

Ensuring client confidentiality is critical to the legal team at MKB Law. Briefed have created a bespoke GDPR training for law firms, meeting all ICO standards, which allows the firm to annually certify directors, associates, support staff and trainees at the start of each year.

Briefed has supported MKB Law now for several years with excellent, practical data security training. The training, designed by their specialist team of barristers, is easy to follow, user friendly and includes case studies relating to the day-to-day practices of a law firm.

In addition to staff training, MKB Law have implemented a number of practices and processes to further enhance their data protection, namely the move to a paperless office in 2019 and a significant investment in their IT and communications systems.

Alicia McCrory, specialist compliance Barrister at Briefed, comments: “MKB Law prioritises its clients’ data security. It understands that the opportunity for things to go wrong, from a data perspective, exists every single day, and that the consequences can be catastrophic”.

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